That’s BCS, or Bowl Championship Series. The same BCS in which the Huskies (7-4, 4-2 Big East) would be a part of with a win Saturday night at South Florida.

All because of its 38-17 win over Cincinnati on Saturday, UConn is in the driver’s seat in the Big East.

Beyond controlling its own destiny, UConn coach Randy Edsall told his team to not discuss what happens if the Huskies beat the Bulls on national television. Instead, he wants the focus on what the team can do to win the regular season finale.

“All the focus is on South Florida and we’re not talking about anything other than South Florida. … The kids know we have to go and prepare starting (Sunday) for South Florida. It’s going to be hard. South Florida beat Miami in overtime. It’s going to be hard, it’s on the road.

“But you know what? This is what you want. This is why you play the game, to be in this position to get things done.”

It’s a tricky proposition because the Huskies know that beating USF equals BCS and their first outright Big East championship.

After a slow start, going 3-4 and 0-2 in the conference before the current four-game winning streak, Edsall believed his team bought into the pre-season hype that tabbed the Huskies as a trendy pick to win the Big East.

“Drinking the poison, he likes to call it,” fullback Anthony Sherman said of Edsall. “That’s what we all call it and that’s what we can’t do this week coming up. There’s going to be a lot of people on our back, but we just have to focus and do what we need to do.”

That the Huskies are in position to control their destiny is amazing in and of itself. They point to the 26-0 loss at Louisville as both rock bottom and the turning point.

There are two scenarios in which UConn achieves its first-ever BCS bid. The first is simple enough: Win and it’s in.

The second requires a lot of uncertainty. Should UConn lose to USF, and Pittsburgh and West Virginia win, it would create a five-way tie atop the Big East. In what would be classified as a mini-conference for the sake of a tiebreaker, the conference’s BCS representative is determined by head-to-head record among the five teams (UConn, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, South Florida and Syracuse). By virtue of their 3-1 mark against the other four teams, the Huskies have the advantage.

“It’s a great place to be,” center Moe Petrus said. “This is where we wanted to be all year. We’re looking forward to the challenge of South Florida next week, and then hopefully if things go in our favor, we’ll reach our goal of where we wanted to be.”